The Bloc Québécois is planning to introduce an amendment to a Liberal government bill that would remove a religious exemption from Canada’s hate speech laws, a source has told CBC News.

The Criminal Code currently includes an exemption for hate speech, "if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text."

The Bloc is expected to introduce the amendment to remove that section of the code as part of Bill C-9 — dubbed the Combatting Hate Act — during a clause-by-clause review at the House justice committee on Thursday afternoon. Rhéal Fortin is the Bloc member who sits on the justice committee.

CBC News has agreed to not name the source because they weren't authorized to spea

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